For Jacob and his friends, July 13 was a typical Sunday afternoon.

He was bored, doing what most of us do sitting at home with no plans on a lazy summer day. “I was on Instagram, and suddenly I see my friend Seth posted a picture of the Sir Paul McCartney eating ice cream at eCreamery in Dundee. You know, normal stuff. Being huge Beatles fans, my friends Luke, Tom and I drove over there really fast. We asked some people if they’d seen Paul, and they pointed across the street.”

Of course, it became clear to the group of average Omaha boys that it wasn’t just a dream, that world famous celebrity was, by some miracle, casually walking around in their area of town.

The mobs of people lining the street, taking pictures to make their friends jealous made it somewhat obvious, too.

The fact that Warren Buffett was spending the day with McCartney (a Berkshire Hathaway investor) cannot be left out. However, for Jacob and most Omahans, Buffett was an afterthought. (Poor Warren, he’s not that interesting. We see him all the time.)

For the three high schoolers, documenting the moment that their idol was literally there in the flesh was their first priority. “We had a six or seven minute encounter with him and Warren, just sitting there on the bench. We were freaking out, thinking, he’s right there. He was probably about four feet away. I actually moved back to take a picture of Tom in front of them, he was that close.”

So Murray snapped the picture.

The picture that made his friend Tom White (and he and Luke Koesters by association) overnight sensations across America.

“We were just in the moment at that point,” Murray recalls. “I got a picture in front of them, too. Warren looked a little amused, and Paul just kinda looked at us and posed. It was unreal. After that, we asked if he could sign stuff. We had an Abbey Road vinyl and everything. Paul said he couldn’t sign anything, though.”

But it was what happened the next moment that was one of the highlights of the teenager’s night.

“Paul was leaving in his Buick, so I told him to have a good day. He said, ‘You, too.’ I was so excited. I couldn’t believe any of this was happening.”

But wait, it gets better.

Seriously, if that’s even possible.

“Luke, Tom, and I were pretty happy with meeting Paul,” says Murray, still beaming from the memories of that day. “We went home and posted our pictures in front of Warren and Paul, not expecting much to happen. The next morning, the picture of Tom has 700 retweets and Tom calls me to say that Good Morning America, the Today Show, and CNN called him. Local and national news stations are calling us. It’s complete craziness.”

The picture of a regular Nebraska kid, Tom White (who goes to Prep) in front of Warren Buffett and Paul McCartney just sitting on a bench, a picture Jacob took, has gone viral.

In a matter of just a few hours, White has reached 2,000 followers on both Twitter and Instagram.

Even more unbelievable, Paul McCartney’s Twitter account retweets the picture of Tom that Luke, a fellow Central Eagle posted.

White is racking in the headlines across the country, and Murray and Koesters are part of it, as well.

“I just couldn’t believe it,” Murray remembers. “We didn’t think anything would come from the picture. We just posted it.”

Despite all the attention from the news media, the best part of the experience for Murray was, in fact, meeting Sir Paul McCartney. “A radio station called us, and we got free tickets to his concert in Lincoln. All we cared about was seeing Paul again.”

According to Murray, McCartney truly is the gentleman he is always made out to be. “Not only he has had such an outstanding career, he’s still making music. He’s extremely gifted and he cares about people. He didn’t seem annoyed by us at all. He’s so used to it,” Murray grins, as he’s seen this for a fact.

In the aftermath of White, Koesters, and Murray’s moments in national spotlight, the boy responsible for his friend’s viral picture is content with the circumstances in which he saw Sir Paul.

“For one, I think this shows Omaha is a place where exciting things can happen. One of the biggest music icons ever was in our town, and everything aligned so we could meet him. I’m pretty satisfied with that.”

Retweets, followers, interviews, and Beatlemania ice cream flavors at eCreamery aside, Murray knows he and his friends are different people from their interaction with McCartney.

“I’m never going to forget it. It was the highlight of, no, it made my summer.”